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Australia's lauded 1996 gun buyback likely had no real effect on its gun death rates.
Posted on 3/1/18 at 3:25 pm
Posted on 3/1/18 at 3:25 pm
The article is a refutation of the "57,000 guns turned in for anti gun solidarity" story the media has been spinning, but the most reveling part is:
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It's understandable that Australia should interest those wondering if legal measures can curb gun violence and deaths. As a 2008 study from the Melbourne Institute (part of the University of Melbourne) on the effects of Australia's gun control measures after Port Arthur started by noting that
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Australia's 1996-97 National Firearms Agreement (NFA), which involved the buyback and destruction of over 600,000 guns within a few months, is one of the most massive government adjustments to gun control regulations in the developed world in recent history. The extent of the buyback and accompanying swift nationwide change in the firearm regulatory environment following the enactment of the NFA (prohibition on certain types of firearms, registration requirements etc.) makes this policy a natural experiment in which the results of a methodical evaluation would be extremely interesting...
And their rough conclusion?
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Despite the fact that several researchers using the same data have examined the impact of the NFA on firearm deaths, a consensus does not appear to have been reached. In this paper, we re-analyze the same data on firearm deaths used in previous research, using tests for unknown structural breaks as a means to identifying impacts of the NFA. The results of these tests suggest that the NFA did not have any large effects on reducing firearm homicide or suicide rates.
The authors came to this conclusion after examining, using a variety of statistical techniques, nearly a century of homicide and suicide data, gun and non-gun, looking for "structural break points" that would indicate some policy or other change was clearly affecting the rates. They did not find any for any period around or after the NFA.
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Posted on 3/1/18 at 3:27 pm to blueboy
Gun buy backs are a great way to make money. I've seen YouTube vids of people selling homemade pipe shotguns and getting $200 a pop from these idiots.
I've been looking into doing it myself but I haven't found any buy backs in Texas yet
I've been looking into doing it myself but I haven't found any buy backs in Texas yet
Posted on 3/1/18 at 3:58 pm to Crimson Wraith
quote:How is it possible they have school kids still alive?
hey had an amnesty period last year decades after the new law. 50,000 guns, a bazooka and several rocket launchers were turned in.
Posted on 3/1/18 at 4:00 pm to blueboy
You can find a hundred studies that say...
Banning guns did nothing to curtail gun deaths in the UK as well.
It slightly increased knife deaths for the first year but then gun deaths went right back to where they were before the ban.
And now, nobody has protection from the rapes.
Banning guns did nothing to curtail gun deaths in the UK as well.
It slightly increased knife deaths for the first year but then gun deaths went right back to where they were before the ban.
And now, nobody has protection from the rapes.
This post was edited on 3/1/18 at 4:01 pm
Posted on 3/1/18 at 4:02 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
Promise program needs to end.
Posted on 3/1/18 at 4:06 pm to blueboy
quote:Wikipedia says WTAF.
Australia's lauded 1996 gun buyback likely had no real effect on its gun death rates.
Australia: 0.93 firearm deaths per 100,000 per year, 0.217 guns per inhabitant.
USA: 10.54 firearm deaths per 100,000 per year, 1.0105 guns per inhabitant.
Posted on 3/1/18 at 4:18 pm to austintigerdad
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Australia: 0.93 firearm deaths per 100,000 per year, 0.217 guns per inhabitant. USA: 10.54 firearm deaths per 100,000 per year, 1.0105 guns per inhabitant.
Start your own thread with this random and totally non-related statistic.
Posted on 3/1/18 at 4:23 pm to austintigerdad
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Australia: 0.93 firearm deaths per 100,000 per year.
USA: 10.54 firearm deaths per 100,000 per year.
All this proves is that we are better shots than the Aussies
MAGA
Posted on 3/1/18 at 4:24 pm to austintigerdad
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Australia: 0.93 firearm deaths per 100,000 per year, 0.217 guns per inhabitant.
USA: 10.54 firearm deaths per 100,000 per year, 1.0105 guns per inhabitant.
The USA counts suicides (nearly 80% of US gun deaths), Australia does not.
Posted on 3/1/18 at 4:26 pm to austintigerdad
quote:Since 96, the US firearm murder rate has decreased more rapidly than Australia.
Australia: 0.93 firearm deaths per 100,000 per year, 0.217 guns per inhabitant.
USA: 10.54 firearm deaths per 100,000 per year, 1.0105 guns per inhabitant.
And also, buy back only garnered around 1/3 of guns. 2/3 are still out there.
Posted on 3/1/18 at 4:26 pm to USA Dan
He won't respond.
Posted on 3/1/18 at 5:08 pm to blueboy
It's well know among people who are actually informed that all decreases in firearm deaths in Australia since the mandatory buyback can be explained by a continuation of a decreasing trend in gun deaths that started 15 years before the buyback. The drop in gun deaths in Australia pales in comparison to the decrease the us experienced over the same period of time, with firearm sales exploding at the same time.
This post was edited on 3/1/18 at 5:10 pm
Posted on 3/1/18 at 5:11 pm to austintigerdad
Australia doesn’t have a “culcha” problem like we do here
Posted on 3/1/18 at 5:12 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
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And now, nobody has protection from the rapes.
At least the UK Muslims are happy.
Posted on 3/1/18 at 5:12 pm to austintigerdad
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Australia: 0.93 firearm deaths per 100,000 per year, 0.217 guns per inhabitant.
USA: 10.54 firearm deaths per 100,000 per year, 1.0105 guns per inhabitant.
Most US firearm deaths are suicide.
Posted on 3/1/18 at 5:26 pm to Four Leaf Tayback
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Australia doesn’t have a “culcha” problem like we do here
DING DING DING~!
We have a winner
Posted on 3/1/18 at 5:42 pm to ChineseBandit58
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The USA counts suicides (nearly 80% of US gun deaths), Australia does not.
I've actually written about this but used homicide only data.
I did not come across this, do you have a link about Australia's numbers not including suicides?
Posted on 3/1/18 at 5:46 pm to blueboy
Has Australia had a mass shooting since this legislation?
Posted on 3/1/18 at 5:48 pm to blueboy
Australian mass murderers just burn people now.
All of the events since 1996 are right there in wikipedia, with references
All of the events since 1996 are right there in wikipedia, with references
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